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SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
Corozalito: a nascent arribada nesting beach in Costa Rica.
Rojas-Cañizales, D., Mejías-Balsalobre, C., Espinoza-Rodríguez, N., Bézy, V.S., Naranjo, I., Arauz, R. and R.A. Valverde (2022).
Marine Biology 169, 59
Olive Ridleys: The Quirky Turtles That Conquered the World
Shanker, K., Abreu-Grobois, A., Bezy, V., Briseno, R., Colman, L., Girard, A., Girondot, M., Jensen, M. P., Manoharakrishnan, M., M. Rguez-Baron, J., Valverde, R., and West, L. (2021).
The State of the World’s Sea Turtles SWOT: Report 16 (pp. 24-33). Oceanic Society.
Unearthing the sediment microbiome of sea turtle nests with disparate survivorship at a mass-nesting beach in Costa RicaBézy, V.S., Hill-Spanik, K., and C.J. Plante. (2020)
Aquatic Microbial Ecology 85, 71-83
Mass-nesting events in olive ridley sea turtles: environmental predictors of timing and size
Bézy, V.S., Puman, N.F., Umbanhowar, J.A., Orrego, C.M., Fonseca, L.G., Quirós-Pereira, W.M., Valverde, R.A., and K.J. Lohmann. (2020)
Animal Behaviour 163, 85-94.
Mass Nesting In Olive Ridley Sea Turtles: Timing, Nearshore Behavior, And Possible Cues For Nesting Synchronization
Bézy, Vanessa. (2019).
Doctoral Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A convolutional neural network for detecting sea turtles in drone imagery
Gray, P. C., Fleishman, A. B., Klein, D. J., McKown, M. W., Bézy, V. S., Lohmann, K. J. and D.W. Johnston. (2019).
Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10, 345–355.
Untangling nearshore sea turtle densities: applications of unmanned aerial systems for population assessments.
Sykora-Bodie, S., Bézy, V., Johnston, D., Newton, E., and K. Lohmann. (2017).
Scientific Reports 7, 17690
A new method for estimating nest density at an arribada rookery in Ostional, Costa Rica.
Bézy, V.S., M. Girondot, and R.A. Valverde. (2016).
Journal of Herpetology 50(3), 309-215.
Olive ridley sea turtle hatching success as a function of the microbial abundance in nest sand at Ostional, Costa Rica.Bézy, V.S., R.A. Valverde, and C.J. Plante. (2015).
PLoS ONE 10(2): e0118579.
Olive ridley sea turtle hatching success as a function of microbial abundance and the microenvironment of in situ nest sand at Ostional, Costa Rica.Bézy, V.S., R.A. Valverde, and C.J. Plante. (2014).
Journal of Marine Biology 2014, 351921.
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